Ethnicity, Not Class? The 1929 Bulawayo Faction Fights Reconsidered

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Title:	Ethnicity, Not Class? The 1929 Bulawayo Faction Fights Reconsidered
Author:	Msindo, Enocent
Year:	2006
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	32
Issue:	3
Period:	September
Pages:	429-447
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	ethnic conflicts 1929 Kalanga Ndebele (Zimbabwe) Shona History and Exploration Law, Human Rights and Violence Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070600829419
Abstract:	From Christmas eve of 1929 to the end of that year, Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) was an ungovernable city marred by fights between Shona, on the one hand, and forces that were predominantly Ndebele and groups sympathetic to them. In their 1979 article, I. Phimister and C. van Onselen were convinced that the 1929 Bulawayo violence was primarily a manifestation of intra-working class conflict over job competition. The present author, however, uses an ethnic explanation and sees these clashes as an attempt by local Ndebele, in a temporary alliance with the Kalanga and drawing on fighting resources and planning, to reassert their moral authority and reclaim 'their' city from well-established Shona workers and residents. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]